- I’ve seen this movie already and it’s called Ordinary People.
- WHY HELLO THERE SHAKY CAM. It’s been a while since you’ve made me want to throw up on the people in front of me. Luckily for you, the theatre was nearly empty and there was no one in my immediate vomiting radius. (Also, I didn’t actually vomit.)
I know the hand held camera is to make us feel like we’re watching an intimate documentary on dysfunction, as if an unseen family member is filming every last embarrassing and awkward scene and has an inability to press the STOP button, but I can’t get behind it. You know how I feel about this technique.
- I thought the racial diversity in the cast was nice especially since the diversity was never used as a plot point in a Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner kind of way. Of course, now that I’ve pointed out that it was racially diverse, it sort of ruins the fact that the filmmakers obviously didn’t think it was a big deal.
- The bride is white, the groom is black, and they’re having an Indian-themed wedding… why? I feel weird about co-opting other people’s cultures like that, but clearly these people don’t. Then again, bridesmaids wearing saris looked rather nice but borrowing from other cultures for reasons as shallow as that doesn’t seem terribly respectful to me.
- The toasting scene at the rehearsal dinner was way too LONG. There’s a difference between lingering on something mundane and awkward just to further emphasize that awkwardness and not knowing when to end a scene. This would be the latter.
- Anne Hathaway’s character was one of those most self-involved characters I’ve seen on screen recently, holy god. We’re meant to infer that she is trying to overcome her narcissistic behaviour by making a clean start and checking herself willingly back into rehab, but I have difficulty sympathizing with her. She doesn’t really save this movie for me even though she was fairly good in it.
- I forgot the best part of the film, where Anne Hathaway’s character says she had a “nachtmare”. Her step-mother asks what a nachtmare is and the dad says “It’s a nightmare so bad it’s in German”. LOL.
Rachel Getting Married
I am quickly tiring of the dysfunctional family drama film.
IMDB Plot Synopsis A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.